The Community Social Planning Council of Victoria is launching the Recycling Works program to create employment and training opportunities for youth. The program will begin accepting additional recyclable materials on November 16th at their downtown depot. It aims to lower the youth unemployment rate while focusing on youth with barriers to employment. A seventeen-year-old student says the program will teach her forklift driving skills over three months. The program also aims to reduce landfill methane emissions by diverting over half a million tonnes of waste per year if fully utilized by Victoria residents.
The Community Social Planning Council of Victoria is launching the Recycling Works program to create employment and training opportunities for youth. The program will begin accepting additional recyclable materials on November 16th at their downtown depot. It aims to lower the youth unemployment rate while focusing on youth with barriers to employment. A seventeen-year-old student says the program will teach her forklift driving skills over three months. The program also aims to reduce landfill methane emissions by diverting over half a million tonnes of waste per year if fully utilized by Victoria residents.
The Community Social Planning Council of Victoria is launching the Recycling Works program to create employment and training opportunities for youth. The program will begin accepting additional recyclable materials on November 16th at their downtown depot. It aims to lower the youth unemployment rate while focusing on youth with barriers to employment. A seventeen-year-old student says the program will teach her forklift driving skills over three months. The program also aims to reduce landfill methane emissions by diverting over half a million tonnes of waste per year if fully utilized by Victoria residents.
The Community Social Planning Council of Victoria is launching the Recycling Works program to create employment and training opportunities for youth. The program will begin accepting additional recyclable materials on November 16th at their downtown depot. It aims to lower the youth unemployment rate while focusing on youth with barriers to employment. A seventeen-year-old student says the program will teach her forklift driving skills over three months. The program also aims to reduce landfill methane emissions by diverting over half a million tonnes of waste per year if fully utilized by Victoria residents.
Opportunities for Youth. (Victoria, BC) As part of a strategy to connect youth to meaningful work, the Community Social Planning Council (CSPC) of Victoria is launching a recycling program that will create employment and training opportunities for youth in the city. Recycling Works will begin accepting recyclable waste on Monday, November 16, 2015, at the downtown depot on 626 Pembroke Street. Victoria residents are encouraged to bring in items not already picked up at curbside: plastic packaging, grocery bags, foam products, meat trays, electronics packaging, and more. A full list of what will be accepted is available on the Recycling Works website: www.recyclingworksvictoria.org By dropping off items at the depot, people in Victoria will be doing their part to help youth receive workplace training and life-skills classes designed to prepare them for positions with local employers. The program is part of CSPCs goal to lower the local youth unemployment rate from 14.3 per cent to 12 percent by 2017. Recycling Works is helping to achieve this goal by focusing on youth with barriers to employment. Nobody else would even interview me, says Johanna McBurnie, a seventeen-year-old high school student who is completing her training with Recycling Works, If I stay for three months theyll teach me to drive the forklift. The project is not only preserving job security for the next generation, it is preserving natural resources and the atmosphere by modelling what is possible. I cant believe how much stuff we can bring in, says Marshall Holm, a local homeowner participating in the test program, This week we only put out one bag of garbage, and we have four people in the house. It feels great to keep this stuff out of the dump. Half a million tonnes of waste would be diverted from the landfill every year if everybody in the city recycled all of the items that Recycling Works accepts, says Dave Williams of the Resource Conservation Council. Landfills produce 25 per cent of Canada's methane emissions. We need to significantly lower our national methane output, says Williams. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential that is 30 times greater than carbon dioxide. Williams says he expects this program will help change Victorias toxic output levels and set a new standard for waste management on Vancouver Island and across BC.
Recycling Works: www.recyclingworksvictoria.org
Pathways to Success Report: The Power and Potential of Social Enterprise Community Social Planning Council: www.communitycouncil.ca
Dan McNeill, Communications Officer, Recycling Works